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Institutional investors are organisations which pool large sums of money and invest those sums in companies. They include banks, insurance companies, retirement or pension funds, hedge funds and mutual funds. Their role in the economy is to act as highly specialised investors on behalf of others. For instance, an ordinary person will have a pension from his employer. The employer gives that person's pension contributions to a fund. The fund will buy shares in a company, or some other financial product. Funds are useful because they will hold a broad portfolio of investments in many companies. This spreads risk, so if one company fails, it will be only a small part of the whole fund's investment. Institutional investors will have a lot of influence in the management of corporations because they will be entitled to exercise the voting rights in a company. They can engage in active role in corporate governance. Furthermore, because institutional investors have the freedom to buy and sell shares, they can play a large part in which companies stay solvent, and which go under. Influencing the conduct of listed companies, and providing them with capital are all part of the job of investment management.


http://seekingalpha.com/article/80484-oil-price-rise-demand-supply-speculation


Hiding as commercial accounts, thru a Commodity Futures Trading Commission exemption to avoid speculative position limits, these institutional-investors use commodities index-futures to hold positions in oil. But not as traditional buyers of oil would, but as financial speculations. This feeds the demand side, without ever, actually demanding oil. Eighty two percent (82%) of WTI futures [net increase from 01/01/03 to 03/12/08] was purchased by institutional-investors [Testimony of Michael Masters before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate, p.3, May 20, 2008


Is this fair to the rest of us?

Well, if Obama's okay with it, and he is...I'm fine with it....just as long as it doesn't happen too fast. His quote, not mine.

Soon we'll have windmill driven cars

Link? Facts?

Myopic Treehuggers like OwlGore!!!
And besides,Profits have to be made,before they can be looted by Politicians!!!

Actually, we probably won't have windmill driven cars.......I fibbed

Wow.You are quite brainy.Are you sure you wanna discuss Oil Prices on a Dating Site ?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UOpcPfAarjY

However, I do have this visual of OwlGore in a little metal peddle car (from the 50's) with a beanie on and a little windmill the hood, with the blade whirling around.

Well it is under curren events.... You like big brains?

I just want to make people aware that jobs or productivity have not increased under the Bush administration but the price of oil....


Friday, May 23rd, 2008


Cashing in on Commodities: What’s Driving the Oil Bull, How Much Further It Will Go, and How Investors Can Profit
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a new Money Morning series highlighting investment opportunities created by the global bull market in commodities.

By Jason Simpkins
Associate Editor
Exactly 12 months ago, West Texas Intermediate crude oil was trading at just under $63 a barrel.

Yesterday (Thursday) futures prices for that benchmark grade of crude oil hit the latest in a succession of record highs, punching through the $135-a-barrel mark on the New York Mercantile Exchange, before sliding back.

In other words, in only a single year, crude-oil prices have more than doubled, soaring 115% - and setting 27 separate new records along the way. And while a short-term correction may be in the offing - especially with fears of a U.S. recession ebbing - the reality is that oil prices are nowhere near the end of their run, meaning the United States is really an economic system that’s at the crossroads

Yes and no to be honest.I used to date some chics that were very intelligent but they just didn't seem to be able to cut loose.Their mind was always working.evaluating.comparing.etc.We just couldn't get a good laugh though.Anyways it's just me,so please don't get offended.
Pete

Well, you are in Malta anyway. But I assure you I know how to cut lose, have fun, and have a great sense of humor, not the sarcastic kind. No offense taken.

Are you talking for the previous month or over the 7.5 years? Rather vague statement...

Here they are predicting the same and 10 million cars being pulled off the road because of it!!!!!!!!!!

I heard that speech too. He doen't want to shock the system, just make public transportaion more inviting.... ie. more government jobs.

Zee

Geez Indy, you coudl do a quick search for that but here you go....
Posted June 6, 2008 9:10 AM

by Mark Silva and updated at 10:15 a.m.

At the gate of the general election campaign of 2008, unemployment is up.

The rate of joblessness made a 10-percent jump in May - rising from 5 percent unemployment to 5.5 percent unemployment. The half-point increase puts unemployment at one full point higher than it was a year ago.

Another 49,000 jobs were lost - raising the number of jobs lost so far in 2008 to 324,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics report this morning.

You do know we are in a recession right?

This is a very short, very concise video on our oil situation from Newt Gingrich....If you're truly interested, you should view it. It's just one man's opinion, but it's a very solid argument AND a solution.... Ya know... no bitching, just a solution!


http://youtube.com/watch?v=UOpcPfAarjY

Personally, i am fine with $8-$10 a gallon for gas... just means I have made a lot of money in the market.

As gas prices go, here in Kentucky we are still below $4 a gallon in most places.

Zee

Good.Nice to meet you.

Yep, i have been trying to do research on US companies and I keep getting information that Canada is also being ran by the big corporations and people are struggling with oil prices.